Join my good friend and yoga teacher Kate for a morning of yoga and essential oils.

Essential oils have been used throughout yoga’s history, primarily in reference to yoga’s ayurvedic science. The benefits of essentials oils are vast including supporting your emotional needs, immune system, and physical health. Come and experience the benefits of pairing essential oils with your yoga practice.

A brief introduction of essential oils will be followed by a 75 minute meditative posture yoga class highlighting 6 different essential oils. Participants will be invited to experience selected essential oils aromatically, topically, and internally.

All participants will receive a Home Oil Practice bag with samples of selected oils distributed in class along with detailed information about how to use each oil at home. * Please bring a glass or stainless steel water bottle (optional).

Coming soon!! Private sessions in the quiet and peaceful '360 Therapy' Yoga Therapy room. Located at the Rubicon Building on Lake Lanier. Get in on the ground floor and benefit from early bird pricing.4 sessions for $2402 sessions for $1501 session for $80All sessions are 60 minutes

4 week Yin/Yang Fusion Series with Emily Cook (squared)Beginning Wednesday May 7th 6:30-7:45p.m.$45 for all 4 weeks or $12.00 drop in register by MAY 1st678-617-0313 Yin is a meditative practice with an emphasis on deep stretching. In Yin, we hold the postures for a longer period of time offering added health and mobility to the joints and surrounding tissues.In Yin/Yang fusion, we will dedicate the majority of the class to yin inspired stretches and methodology with some yang inspired postures mixed in to add in a little movement and work the larger muscle groups, leaving yogis in a state of balance—peaceful and calm, yet invigorated and refreshed. In Yin practice we delve deeper into the connective tissues and open up the often forgotten places in the body. Exploring a play on “opposing forces”, we will focus on balancing the Yin and Yang both in body and mind with this fusion approach set to (as always, in Emily’s classes) a fun and relevant playlist!For more information on Yin practice, check out this article from Yoga Journal: http://www.yogajournal.com/practice/580.Namaste!

No classes today Tuesday Feb. 11, 2014. I will post here and send an email for other closings. Stay safe, stay warm

(reposted from Facebook. Original post Jan. 28th)A few random musings on snow days .... and kid sick days. I do not ever hope for my children to be ill, nor do I ever hope for the roads to be impassable. However, theses things do happen from time to time and they do disrupt our schedules and our plans. (sometimes a lot, sometimes not)

But here is what I LOVE about the disruption of our schedules and plans. We slow down, we become more present to the needs of ourselves and of those around us, we laugh a little more because we are not thinking about the next thing on our to-do lists. It is no secret to you that I am a big fan of sloooooowing down. It is in this space we become more aware, and that awareness is our greatest teacher.

So enjoy your snow day, build a snowman, make a snow angel, go sledding, read a book, snuggle a child (furry or not!) OR simply do whatever feeds your soul.

Due to the wintery weather all classes will be cancelled on Wednesday January 29th. I apologize for the inconvenience . Stay safe, stay warm and have fun playing in the snow! Be sure to sign up for my e-mails to receive this and other news, like the unlimited February yoga special....unlimited yoga in February for only $70

Do you ever get this question and think....oh my goodness I don't even know where to begin?.What have I been up to? 500 hour yoga therapy teacher training, teaching my 15 year old to drive, helping my 13 year old to manage a newly diagnosed chronic illness, making sure my sweet 11 year doesn't get lost in the shuffle, giving away karma yoga, creating new pathways in my brain, practicing my new yoga skills on my lovely test subjects, teaching my regular schedule all week. yoga homework, kid homework, (homework stinks, btw), hoping my house doesn't fall down around my ears, planning and scheduling special workshops.... There is more...but I want to make sure I don't sound like I am complaining. This is a full life, no doubt. But a full life is full of life. I am full. My life, although busy and sometimes overwhelming is blessed. I am fairly sure that without my meditation practice and without my yoga practice and definitely without the support of my husband I would have gone off the deep in a long time ago. Am I perfect at my daily meditation practice? No, for example, I committed at the beginning of this year to sit in meditation for a minimum of 10 minutes everyday. It is now the 23rd of January. If I am honest I can count about 11 times I actually sat in meditation. Do I write in my yoga homework journal daily after each session...nope. But I keep trying... I keep coming back and that, my friends, is the real practice. Coming back. I will never be perfect. Not a perfect mother, not a perfect business owner, not a perfect yoga teacher or driving teacher. But I can be and I am a good enough mother, yoga teacher, wife ect. Being good enough is just going to have to be enough. "gratitude consists of being more aware of what we have than what we do not' ~ anonymous

I am about to share a secret with you... a deep, dark secret. My feet can get really nasty. Dry, icky, rough, cracked heels. It is not pretty. As a yoga teacher this is unacceptable. I am walking around you, stepping on your mat for an adjustment, stepping near your head. Doing this with nasty feet is not okay. It is my duty, part of my job description to have pretty feet. Pedicures are great, but expensive. I tried to get my accountant to agree that pedicures were a tax- deductible expense....she said no....but I digress. Who can afford that kind of time or money anyway? Not me. SO what's a hard working yogi/mom to do? Well, I am going to tell you. I am going to share with you my secret to soft, smooth feet. Soft as a baby's bottom one might say. This deals only with the feet themselves not the nails or nail polish. You are on your own there, I have always liked the Au Natural look myself :) (full disclosure, I got this off of the show 'The Doctors' a couple of years ago)

It's quick, very easy, inexpensive and it works! Step One: Go to the acne isle of your local drugstore and buy Stridex medicated maximum strength acne pads. Generic is fine too as long as it has salicylic acid in it. Then go to the lotion isle and buy any kind of foot cream or lotion. I like Neutrogena Foot Cream. Step Three: At night, before bed, wipe your feet with the medicated pads. One for each foot. Step Four: Put on the foot lotionStep Five: Put on socksStep Six: You are done! Go to sleep!I'll post a before and after shot in a week or so. It takes only a day or two to start seeing results. A week or two to look like you just had a spa pedicure. You are welcome, OXOXO emilie